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Drawings of cameras and film spools

Archive File: MS/DEP/2015/1/4 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Drawings of cameras and film spools

Level: File

Classmark: MS/DEP/2015/1/4

Creator(s): Le Prince, Louis Aime Augustin (1841-)

Date(s): c.1882

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 leaf, 1 fragment; manuscript papers; 1 folder

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/jr32qjzg

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/439727

Collection group(s): Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society

Description

Comprises drawings of various pieces of machinery with calculations. Le Prince made these on the back of a compliment slip headed 'Le Prince and Pepper'. This was a company created to develop and sell Lincrusta wallpapers in New York. There is also a small fragment of lined paper which was co-located with the compliment slip. The following words and numbers are written on it 'Augustin Sketch 123 ___ 321'.

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